An eleven-year-old rape survivor was prosecuted for filing a false report instead

Evidence

Yet none of the men involved in raping Danielle was charged. Instead, in June 2008, a prosecutor charged Danielle with filing a false police report and issued a warrant for her arrest. Danielle was declared a ward of the state and spent two years confined to residential mental-health facilities. The prosecutor argued that details of the stories Danielle told the police during questioning were inconsistent. An email exchange between police officers told more: “All sex was consexual [sic]. Parents are unable to accept the fact of this child’s promiscuous behavior caused this situation.” — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 230

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Supports the ‘immodesty/moral blame’ article: here the stereotype of Black female hypersexuality is weaponized against an 11-year-old, the extreme endpoint of blaming the victim’s ‘promiscuous behavior’.